Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Thank you to
MTV / LogoTV and Viacom for publically distancing themselves from disgruntled
employee RuPaul after his recent emotional melt-down where he lashed out in
response to Logo rightfully siding with the trans community by banning trans
hate speech on their platform.

Logo
affirmed that trans people's safety, equality and basic human dignity are more
of a priority to their network than appeasing certain gay male entertainer's
unhealthy insistence on using (and capitalizing off of) misogynistic and
transphobic slurs in front of millions of impressionable viewers. Logo's
pro-trans-humanity resolution is cause for celebration and even healing between
the often conflicted LGB and T* camps, yet somehow this step forward triggered RuPaul
for he immediately lashed out in spite.

In a May 19th podcast
interview he literally referred to all trans women who find his transphobic
jokes and double standards unacceptable as "b*tches" and continuously
used anti-trans slurs.

Not an olive
branch and not a 'meet in the middle' - just this immature 'sore losers'
tantrum. Very disappointing. The mother and healer in me is feeling his pain,
but, unfortunately, he appears to be consciously unaware of how misguided his
"victim artist" role is (especially when he recently criticized
actress Amanda Bynes on Twitter for using the slur f*ggot, even though she
pulled a RuPaul and said, "But I didn't mean it in a bad way". He
still didn't buy her defense of her slur usage - and guess what big man, we
don't buy your identical defense either.).

How can he
not see that just like he and many other gay men don't like non-gay men saying
the word f*ggot or other homophobic slurs, trans women and men also do not
appreciate gay men appropriating anti-trans slurs as a means to appear edgy,
funny and shocking, no matter the cost to the actual community who the slur is
hurled at.

Logo quickly
made it known that they disapproved with RuPaul’s podcats rant. Then on Twitter the
'reality star gone hate-slur advocate' desperately continued his push
back against Logo for holding him accountable for his defamation against
transsexual women - who he laughingly described as male clowns in dresses last
year during an episode of RuPaul's Drag Race and publically mocked their
medically necessary healthcare.

Strangely
enough, RuPaul has unknowingly joined the ranks of far right and ultra-phobic
group Focus on the Family who also misgender and refer to transsexual women as
"tr*nnys, she-males and cross dressers" in political campaigns and
literature aimed at dehumanizing and disempowering trans* Americans.

Wake up Ru,
MTV / Logo / Viacom does not need you for "light bills" as your
delusional tweet says, much like ESPN or the NBA does not need racist Clippers
owner Donald Sterling to pay their "light bills".

Reality
Check: It's 2014, not 1985, and numerous companies and media outlets finally
deem transphobia just as offensive as racism, sexism and homophobia. So when
you judge Duck Dynasty and others for their homophobic comments honestly ask
yourself why you feel entitled to then make equally offensive comments about
others. Your well documented hypocrisy has made clear that this so-called
debate is not really a debate at all for your very own campaign against
anti-gay slurs is no different than our fight against you using anti-trans
slurs. Your illogical spin vanishes under the light.

And yes,
Logo actually has "distanced itself" from your transphobic jokes and
abusive rants by making multiple public statements expressing that enough is
enough! Their network will not abandon doing the right thing by transsexual and
transgender Americans just because a handful of gay male entertainers feel
their celebrity status and fan base gives them special allowances to foster an
unhealthy workplace environment or create media content where the women in my
community are made targets of propaganda that misgenders and dehumanizes us.

The choice could be yours to maturely move forward as a man who has consciously
unconditioned himself of feeling entitled to dictate to women what is or isn't
acceptable for us to be offended by and to instead evolve as an authentic ally
who sincerely listens. We all make mistakes but the good news is we all have
the chance to grow.